The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
WILD SCENES.
Louisville is Badly Excited Over an
Attempted Lynching.
A False Alarm Brings a Big Crowd to
the Jail.
A HOosier Family MystsrlOusly and
Fatally Poisoned.
The Fishery Complication BshOOvss
Bayard to Go Slow.
An Outlaw Killed in the Act of Lead
ing OF a Strangers Horse.
A Cowardly Mob.

| LOUISVILLE, KY, April 29.-Shortly
after d. m. mob of 500 men and
boys, armed with q section of a tele-
graph pole, marched on the Jail to bat
ter IN the doors in order to lynch Bur-
ner and Patterson, the murdererS of
Miss Bowman. Thirty policemen
charged and drove back the mob. Sew
eral policemen were struck by stones
but not seriously hurt. No shots were
| fired. About ten of the mob were ar
rested and another onslaught was
threatened at 2 a. m. Everything quiz
eted down after this about the Jail,
though the talk over town is that an
other and more determined effort will
be made to lynch the negroes tonight.
Rumors that Miss Jennie Bow
man had died of her iniu-
rieS were in circulation YESTERDAY
afternoon. which tended to revive the
excitement. Towards evening crowds
began to collect on the streets and in
the vicinity of the jail until at 10 D. m.
several thousand men and boys were in
the nelghbOrhoOd. Later another
crowd assembled, probably five hun
dred strong, and marched down Jeffer-
son street, steadily and silently until
the corner of Sixth and Jefferson
streets, when they were met by one
hundred police, who rushed out of the
hall where they were bivouacked. The
crowd came on in a manner that
seemed likely to force the police aside.
The latter. however, stood firm, and
for time there was a pell nell hand
to hand fight which resulted in several
broken heads and prominent arrests.
The leaders were soon taken and rushed
OF to the station house and the crowd
as soon as the leaders were taken
began to give way and took to their
heels. In moment they were in full
flight and the police, after pursuing
them short distance, returned and
formed line across the street, where
they renamed on guard. An answer from
governor to call for aid from the mill
tia has just been received at Ills q.
m, and several companies were ordered
to guard the jail.
1925 p. m.-The agreed signal of
eleven taps by the fire department bells
in case of an attack upon the Jail has
just been rung. Great crowds of peo-
pie are pressing toward the jail. The
ing and the police and the mob are now
fighting.
12:45 p. m.-About 5000 people are
assembled on the jail square and at
this writing Jefferson street is a scene
of great confusion and people are rush.
ing towards the Jail from all points.
The general alarm sounded about f1f-
Teen minutes ago Is the cause. None
of the city officials can tell how the
alarm was given, as it could have been
done from any one of the boxes in the
city. The military are on their way to
the jail. No collision has occurred,
and it is not expected that any will at
present. The crowds are forming out
of curiosity.
los p. m.-The alarm, it seems, was
the usual call given to notify members
of the legion when they are expected
to report for duty at the armory, and
people misunderstood the alarm, think
ing it was caused by riot at the Jail.
The crowd has dispersed and no more
trouble is feared at present.